I am sure most of you have noticed we have got an incredible amount of metal lessons!

Thanks to our extremely skilled instructors we are starting to get good coverage of different metal sub-genres.

In order to make our archive more comprehensible, and easier to navigate - we are curently thinking of ways to split our largest categories. The thing is - I am not sure I know enough about metal sub-genres to do the classifying by myself!

The tricky part is understanding and identifying which are the biggest metal sub-genres at GMC..! Examples of some sub-genres would be speed/thrash metal, power metal, heavy/classic metal (?), progressive metal etc.

Let's say that a sub-category needs to have at least 10 gmc lessons in it for it to qualify!

In theory a great idea, but not as easy as it might sound like. There are so many subgenres in metal that it can become very tricky. Take Blind Guardian for example, we have been labled Speedmetal, Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Epic Metal, Melodic Metal, Thrash Metal... I consider us to be metal As I said, basically a good idea, I am just afraid that we might end up with 100 subgenres here.

Uhm, hasn't Gabriel done some Progressive? I know Marcus has done a lot of Neoclassical, I believe we have some power metal, Pavel done some of it if I remember correctly.

But almost the same topic. You should divide the theory board and create applied theory as well. I mean, that would fit a lot of Davids lessons and it would also be a good way to move from etc. Andrews lessons on scales and arpeggios to pavels ionian scale boxes and Muris lesson on diminished arpeggios. That way you would understand what you are learning + getting the theory in your muscle memory!

Maybe divide the metal in riffing/soloing? Maybe for each genre you could add a theory sub-genre? like the theory behind funk, behind metal, the foundations of rock, blues, bluegrass etc.

In theory a great idea, but not as easy as it might sound like. There are so many subgenres in metal that it can become very tricky. Take Blind Guardian for example, we have been labled Speedmetal, Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Epic Metal, Melodic Metal, Thrash Metal... I consider us to be metal As I said, basically a good idea, I am just afraid that we might end up with 100 subgenres here.

Yes I see what you mean. Also I personally can't stand categorising of music! This makes this even harder for me.

However this is inevitable for GMC as the video lessons pages will be almost useless when a category contains 25 sub-pages or more.

The good thing is that we don't need to do the kind of labelling which cd-stores need to. In other words we can place different Blind Guardian lessons into different categories. You guys are obviously very versatile in your writing and that should also be reflected in our categorising.

Also because sub-categorising can get subjective - we will start by grouping closely related sub-genres (an example of that would be speed and thrash). This is inevitable as many sub-categories probably don't have 10 GMC lessons yet!

too many subgenres of metal, simple classifications would be nice. i don't really have a suggestion, im sorta with Marcus, its so hard to classify metal. but simple classifications like JeroenKole said would work.

This is just a quick idea that can give an nice overview without having hundreds of subpages.

Hope this helps,J

actually i am against categorizing too much and would think riffing / solo / riffing and solo would do but as there are so many lessons dealing with metal i think the suggestion from j is a very good one!!

How bout catagorizing them by level of dificulty. beginner 1-3, intermediate 4-7,and advanced 8-10. Metal is very hard to determine unless you go from one extreme to another. ( 80's hair metal to todays deth metal ), alot of styles in between will get sort of lost in the mix.

similar to the lesson plan I know, but would give you a way of grouping the lessons.